The Time Dimension in Marxian Social Theory

Bibliographic Data

ID4356178
AuthorsWolf Heydebrand (Institute for Law and Society, New York University, [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume12
Issue2-3
Pages147-188
Publication date2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x030122001
OpenAlexW2043062536
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited13

This article considers praxis, labor, and history as aspects of time that are constitutive of Marxian theory. The transition from 'praxis' to the critical analysis of capitalism in the labor theory of surplus value is discussed. The main part of the article suggests steps for analyzing the historical dimension of capitalist globalization. First, the forms of capital and their trajectories, e.g. commercial, productive, and financial capital, are distinguished. Second, transnational capitalist expansion is described and explained, using the movement of finance capital as the main criterion of historical periodization. Third, the article shows the importance of a unique moment of historical time, namely the major part of the 20th century, for making Marxian theorizing amenable to certain standards of explanatory social theory

Capital (architecture · Capitalism · Dimension (graph theory · Economic system · Economics · Globalization · Market economy · Neoclassical economics · Periodization · Political science · Positive economics · Praxis · Sociology · Surplus value · Value (mathematics · Economic Theory and Policy · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Political Economy and Marxism

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